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  1. Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Devi Dayal & Jaivinder Yadav

  2. Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Prawin Kumar & Jagdish P. Goyal

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Chettinad Hospital and Research Institute, Kelambakkam, Chennai, India

    Jaishree Vasudevan

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Pt B D Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Anjali Verma & Jaya Shankar Kaushik

  5. Consultant Pediatrician, Mangla Hospital and Research Center, Shakti Chowk, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vipin M. Vashishtha

  6. Indian Academy of Pediatrics Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Immunization Practices, Mumbai, India

    Harish K. Pemde & S. Balasubramanian

  7. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

    Alpesh Goyal

  8. Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

    Ramachandran Rameshkumar & Praveen M. Kurup

  9. Pediatrician, Shah Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Yash Paul

  10. Department of Neonatology, JIPMER, Puducherry, India

    B. Adhisivam & S. Sindhu

  11. Pediatric Endocrinologist, Max, Pentamed and Rainbow Hospitals, New Delhi, India

    Anju Virmani

  12. Ethics Adviser, Indian Pediatrics, New Delhi, India

    Suvasini Sharma

  13. Department of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Devi Dayal & Saniya Gupta

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Dayal, D., Yadav, J., Kumar, P. et al. Correspondence. Indian Pediatr 56, 507–516 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-019-1580-9

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